Tuesday, 11 June 2019

What we do for love - Anne Pfeffer

What We Do For Love Anne Pfeffer Publication date: May 21st 2019Genres: Adult, Contemporary

Thirty-eight year old Nicole Adams has given up on finding love. Instead, the single mother focuses on the things she cherishes most—her sixteen-year old son Justin, her friends, and her art.
When she convinces a prominent Los Angeles museum to feature a piece of her work, a large-scale installation, she thinks her life has finally turned a corner.
Then Justin brings a girl, Daniela, home to live with them. Daniela’s angry parents have thrown her out of the house, because she’s pregnant with Justin’s child. Shattered, Nicole takes Daniela in and, in so doing, is drawn into the inner circle of Daniela’s family—a frightening world of deceit and violence.
Nicole struggles to keep life going as normal. Forced to deal with people she doesn’t trust or like, fearful for the future of both her son and the grandchild they’re expecting, Nicole wonders if she can do what she tells Justin to do: always have faith in yourself and do the right thing.
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What We Do for Love won the Chick Lit category of the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and finalist for Best Cover Design/Fiction!

Author Bio:
Hi! I grew up in the desert around Phoenix, Arizona, where I had a bay quarter horse named Dolly. If I wasn't riding, I was holed up somewhere reading Laura Ingalls Wilder or the Oz books or, later on, Jane Eyre and The Grapes of Wrath. Horses eventually faded as an interest, but I ended up with a lifelong love of books and reading.
After college and eight years of living in cold places like Chicago and New York, I escaped back to the land of sunshine. I now live in California, one mile from the Pacific Ocean, with my dachshund Taco. I have worked in banking and as a pro bono attorney, doing adoptions and guardianships for abandoned children.
As a writer, I'd always been interested in children's books, since they had meant so much to me as a kid. I've found I especially like writing books about teens and twenty-somethings, an age where you make so many decisions about who you are and how you want to spend your life.
I love hearing from readers, so please write to me any time at my website www.annepfeffer.com.

My Review

I'm not really sure what genre of book I'd describe this as. There is some romance, although in many ways it's secondary to the other events that take place. The book deals with relationships of different types; there is the mother and child relationship in its various forms, there's friendship of different types and then there are romantic relationships. As our main character Nicole finds herself looking at the different relationships in her life, she questions them all and finds that things change.

I really enjoyed this read. It was interesting seeing the different way the mothers or potential mothers dealt with their relationship with their child and tried to protect them. I also liked the friendships between Nicole and the people that she had around her.

This was quite a light and easy read, although it dealt in some ways with some quite meaty topics. Overall it was an enjoyable and thought-provoking story, but one that didn't tax my little grey cells too much.